On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:21:57 +0100 "Gerhard W. Gruber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| I want to have job that runs once a day when I power on my machine.
| With cron I have the problem that this has to be at a fixed time, yes?
| Since I switch my machine off when I don' t use it it can often happen
| that this will not run because the launchtime has been missed. I know
| that in Suse they had some mechanism for users like me, who don't let
| their machine run all the time.

I'm pretty sure they use anacron (at least, RedHat used that last time I
looked). It's in portage.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail:    ciaranm at gentoo.org
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